But the trees grew taller and closer, immense in their wrinkling bark; Dropping--a murmurous dropping--old silence and that one sound; For no live creatures lived there, no weasels moved in the dark-- Long sighs arose in our spirits, beneath us bubbled the ground. And the ears of the horse went sinking away in the hollow night; For as drift from a sailor slow drowning the gleams of the world and the sun, Ceased on our hands and our faces, on hazel and oak leaf, the light, And the stars were blotted above us, and the whole of the world was one. Finally, here is one of Mr. Yeats's "old songs re-sung":-- THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL I sat on cushioned otter skin: My word was law from Ith to Emen, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away From girl and boy and man and beast; The fields grew fatter day by day, The wild fowl of the air increased; And every ancient Ollave said, While he bent down his faded head,-- "He drives away the Northern cold." _They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me, the beech-leaves old_. I sat and mused and drank sweet wine; A herdsman came from inland valleys, Crying, the pirates drove his swine To fill their dark-beaked hollow galleys. I called my battle-breaking men And my loud brazen battle-cars From rolling vale and rivery glen, And under the blinking of the stars Fell on the pirates of the deep, And hurled them in the gulph of sleep: These hands won many a torque of gold. _They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me, the beech-leaves old_. But slowly, as I shouting slew And trampled in the bubbling mire, In my most secret spirit grew A whirling and a wandering fire: I stood: keen stars above me shone, Around me shone keen eyes of men: And with loud singing I rushed on Over the heath and spungy fen, And broke between my hands the staff Of my long spear with song and laugh, That down the echoing valleys rolled. _They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me, the beech-leaves old_.